By default there are not many editors on Linux which are CSS friendly, for better syntax highlighting and cleaner look, you basically need a text editor which perform smoothly in your web development environment. Here are some of great CSS editors available for Linux;

* Quanta+ - It provide maximal user extensibility, best editor for efficient and natural use, You can effectively manage editor contents and visually create dialogs for your scripts.

* CSSED - Best editor in open source for auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation that make CSS editing easy. CSSED also features MDI notebook based interface, quick CSS properties and values insertion, auto-completion and dialog-based insertion of CSS complex values.

* Gedit - It is general purpose text editor,the official text editor for GNOME. A simple and efficient editor with flexible plugin system for CSS/HTML editing, and does syntax highlighting.

* SciTE - Another great editor for development, SCIntilla based Text Editor runs on both Linux & Windows. Apart from the standard syntax highlighting and code folding features - it also understands error messages from compilers/interpreters.

* jEdit - jEdit is Written in Java works on Unix, Windows, Mac OS and others. Great editor for CSS and other languages.

* BlueFish - A powerful editor with many great features. Supports editing of PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and so many others.

* Screem - A tool for web development environment which increase productivity, it provide quick access to commonly used features and provide versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment.

* Kate - Another web development editor on KDE with Sessions handling applications, it Supports most languages.

* Nvu - A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users, you can handle it even without technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

* Cream / Vim - Cream is a version of Vim which is easy-to-use configuration run on vim, It nicely highlights CSS syntax, HTML. It also provides a simpler learning step to vim.

To be Continued in next Post..

Virtuozzo has some unique capabilities, the website which use virtuozzo technology get the following incredible features for automation and effective management of a website;

# Isolation- Virtuozzo provides isolation between each VPS and each client and eliminate downtime and issue between other clients sharing the server.

# Plesk Support- The integration with plesk help you to use the system resource smoothly and expand system density.

# Self Management- The Web based interface allows user to backup, restore, manage and reinstall a VPS without much technical knowledge.

# Flexible Resource- Virtuozzo has competence of limiting the resources of each VPS and expand using available resources on the server. It provide you flexibility and unmatched control.

# Administration Tools- The feature of administrative level control in virtuozoo include command line, GUI and  web-based access, the administration tools in virtualized servers take you at any skill level, and you can manage Linux and Windows servers from the same interface.

# Migration - The capability of Virtuozoo to Move VPS to other physical servers minimize the impact of server issues, upgrades or maintenance.

# Easy Upgrade- Upgrading an existing customer to a new Virtuozzo service is just simple, also changing the resources, the configuration and migration to a new server can be done in real-time without any interruption. Also the self-administered incremental and scheduled backup capability of virtuozzo make you worry less.

* Security - In VPS Hosting, virtualized server is secured like a dedicated server. The underlying architecture changes access points and prevents attacks such as DOS possibility.

Media streaming grown to be chiefly a powerful vehicle for audio-video broadcasting, teleconferencing, group chat, radio & weather relay station and moreover extended to different level of services. If you’re planning to build  a website for streaming services for broadcasting audio-video media over the internet, you will need a level headed web hosting services who are capable to offer you shoutcast dedicated server and provide you  direct, fast and secure access to your users without any interruption.

If you wish to install shoutcast on linux here is the process to install in easy step;

SHOUTcast consists of a client-server model hence you should not run it as root because it can create security issue, instead you should create a shoutcast user:

Follow these steps;
1.) Login to root through SSH on the server.
2.) adduser shoutcast
3.) passwd shoutcast
Login as the new shoutcast user, or you can su to the user.

su shoutcast

Download shoutcast from nullsoft:
1. http://www.shoutcast.com/downloads/sc1-9-2/shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
Lets extract shoutcast:
2. tar -zxvf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
Lets tidy up the directory:
3. rm -rf shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6.tar.gz
mv shoutcast-1-9-2-linux-glibc6 shoutcast
cd shoutcast
Shoutcast has now been installed!

configure shoutcast on following step;

Now edit the configuration file.
pico sc_serv.conf
or you can use vi which I prefer, a bit more advanced to use.
vi sc_serv.conf
You can set some important configureation options. Change these settings in the file:
MaxUser
Password
PortBase
uncomment AdminPassword and set an admin password.

Now going through the settings, you can change them to what you want or you can save and start shoutcast and it will work now.
to save crtl+x (if using pico) or :wq if using vi
Now you can start shoutcast here;

./sc_serv sc_serv.conf

Linux 2.6.20 has been released after two month continuous development phase. The current release includes two different virtualization implementations: KVM: full-virtualization capabilities using Intel/AMD virtualization extensions and a paravirtualization implementation usable by different hypervisors.

Short overview;

2.6.20 makes linux join to the virtualization trends. This release adds two virtualization implementations: A full-virtualization implementation that uses Intel/AMD hardware virtualization capabilities called KVM (http://kvm.sourceforge.net) and a paravirtualization implementation (http://lwn.net/Articles/194543) that can be used by different hypervisors (Rusty’s lguest; Xen and Vmware in the future, etc),. But this release also adds initial Sony Playstation 3 support, a fault injection debugging feature (http://lwn.net/Articles/209257), UDP-lite support, better per-process IO accounting, relative atime, support for using swap files for suspend users, relocatable x86 kernel support for kdump users, small microoptimizations in x86 (sleazy FPU, regparm, support for the Processor Data Area, optimizations for the Core 2 platform), a generic HID layer, DEEPNAP power savings for PPC970, lockless radix-tree readside, shared pagetables for hugetbl, ARM support for the AT91 and iop13xx processors, full NAT for nf_conntrack and many other things.
Read the list of changes in more details.

Ubantu is coming with their ambitious project “ubantu Studio“, they have set up a page for the April release which will be ‘multimedia editing flavor of Ubuntu for the Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast those who are already familiar with the Ubuntu-Gnome environment. They’ve set up an Ubuntu Studios Wiki for this project for details,their stated goal is to have a the package ready for use in time from April.